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Windfalls from the Palo Alto-based Facebook's IPO could net the state of California $2.45 billion, and as much as $1.45 billion in 2012-2013 alone, Alexis Madrigal writes for The Atlantic. These inexact estimates are taken from a report by California's Legislative Analyst's Office. The money could go a long...

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Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic has an insightful and information-packed piece about the many companies which semi-anonymously track your web browsing habits all for the purpose of targeting you with better ads. A lot of the larger companies -- Google, Facebook, Microsoft -- have come under scrutiny for such...

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Jeremy Lin may be the most popular athlete in history whose physical skills are equally proportional to his consummate nerdiness. One example: The Landry Fields/Jeremy Lin "Nerdshake." For another, just look to his fanbase, which apparently includes coders and the tech-savvy users they cater to, both of whom are...

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It's not unusual for a film to have multiple cuts or endings before release, the final version determined by the response of test audiences. But Many Worlds, a short film that will debut next month at the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival in Plymouth, UK, could end in four...

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The Samsung ATIV Odyssey bound for Verizon has been a known device ever since Windows Phone 8 was launched, but at the time of its announcement we were told that we could expect it in December. The month came and went, and today we were informed that the new...

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Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit, and sold it to Conde Nast. Now he has a new publishing venture, Breadpig, and he's turned into chief evangelist of the Internet. When the SOPA/PIPA debates were raging, Ohanian was one of the must public voices fighting against the legislation. As one of the busiest,...

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It took Reddit co-founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman three weeks to build the "front page of the web." But within a month of building the site, Ohanian received terrible news from his father His mother had a seizure, and doctors discovered an inoperable tumor in her brain. The first...

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Rise and shine! (Photo: flickr.com/katerha) “You don’t want your analytical efforts to be obvious because voters get creeped out.” Data mining in politics is harder than it looks. [New York Times] It’s “20 under 20″ time once more! If you’ve just gotten to freshman year and you absolutely hate it...

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On The Verge is back! The show returns Thursday, June 21st, 2012, and as always we are coming at you with our regular assortment of news, segments, and music. This month Josh is interviewing Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and the guy who coined the term "net neutrality," Tim Wu....

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Last week we told you that On The Verge was returning this Thursday, June 21st, 2012. What we didn't tell you was that LeVar Burton will be in the studio to talk about life as an actor, director, and more (as well as his new Reading Rainbow app). That's...

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Rumors fluttering about Valve's entry into the hardware market just got a little less salty. According to the outfit's own jobs page, it's prepping to offer consumers "whole new gaming experiences." A call for an experienced electronics engineer says it all, "For years Valve has been all about writing...

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Today at Social Media Week headquarters in NYC, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and The Filter Bubble author Eli Pariser took to the stage to discus how Internet users can work together to create a more open Web. As you’ll see in the video below, Ohanian explains that the Internet is...

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One of the founders of Reddit, a Digg-clone, openly criticized Digg founder Kevin Rose yesterday for his plans to implement “me-too” features into the new version of the service. We consider this to be absurd and rather impolite. Yesterday we discovered a video showing some of the features of the...

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Remember SOPA and PIPA? They were laws introduced in the past two years that could have fundamentally altered the way the internet functions in an effort to curb piracy, but were effectively discontinued after vocal protest and online petitioning. Now we're met with CISPA. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection...

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Note the whiteboard. (Photo: YEC) It’s awfully hard to learn entrepreneurship out of a book, or even out of Hacker News comment threads. Sometimes, you just need to pin down someone who’s been there for an answer. But not every newbie has access to a high-powered mentor. That’s where the...

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It seems like everyone’s discovered Pinterest this week! Alongside the countless posts dissecting its userbase over, sideways, and under have been a series of stories about how it’s “secretly” “monetizing” — a fact unearthed when LLSocial revealed that the startup was using a service called SkimLinks in order to drive...

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A few months back, we wrote a post about how there was this idea gaining steam that somehow a fee-based service (such as a fee-based Twitter clone) would likely result in better service for users than a free one, in which revenue was paid by other third parties (advertisers and...

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Despite being the co-founder of one of the biggest and most highly active discussion forums on the Internet, Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian is a pretty modest dude. And when I say Reddit is “highly active” I mean it generates over 2 billion monthly page views and attracts more than 35,000,000 monthly...

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We’ve already talked about how Twitter has changed the way that real-time journalism functions during news events like the Boston bombings, by taking all the editorial activity that usually happens behind the scenes in newsrooms — the speculation, the fact-checking, and so on — and pushing it out into the...

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Reddit has become a social powerhouse thanks to its mix of aggregation and user-submitted content, but the website was born out of a different idea altogether. Founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian explain that their initial goal was to develop a simple way to order food from local Sheetz...

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The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is no stranger to us, as we've had the opportunity to review the global unit on two occasions. This is the first time, however, that we've seen the S Pen-toting tablet bearing the Verizon logo -- and an unusually large one, to boot. Hardware-wise,...

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By Alexis Brille Designers who are just starting out seem to have trouble calculating just how much their designs are actually worth, let alone choosing whether to charge per hour or per project. Worse, one of the most challenging situations an amateur has to encounter is the fact...

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It's possible there's almost too much On The Verge this month. In fact, it might just be our most jam-packed show ever. For starters, the inimitable LeVar Burton stops in to talk about his time on Star Trek, stepping into iconic roles, becoming a meme, and the new Reading...

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In the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, parts of the startup community hope that the tactics of anti-SOPA protests can shape the conversation on gun control. Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, Randi Zuckerberg, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue, and many more have put their names...

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Today Gilt Groupe has a few hundred employees, but back in September 2007, it was just the founding team working out of a dingy office on West 19th Street. In a new book, By Invitation Only, the company's co-founders talk about what it took to scale up and reach a...

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A newly revealed partnership seeks to bring the interactivity of Sony's video games to the world of Lego's physical bricks and characters. At a 25th anniversary open house for Sony's Computer Science Laboratories in Japan, the companies showed off Toy Alive, a prototype project that uses simple Lego bricks...

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"I Couldn't See It.": Alexis Madrigal spoke with outgoing Intel CEO Paul Otellini about the time Intel talked to Apple about powering the original iPhone: "We ended up not winning it or passing on it, depending on how you want to view it. And the world would have been a lot...

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(Image: flickr.com/jbcurio) New York legislators involved with the proposed Internet Protection Act are getting a lot of calls today, and they’re not quite sure why. The bill was introduced weeks ago to a quiet reception but seems to have become controversial overnight. “Assemblyman Jim Conte is just a co-sponsor on...

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Google just announced that it is bringing its 45 degree imagery in Google Maps to 30 new cities, including Bloomington, IN; Buffalo, NY; Columbus, OH; Indianapolis, IN; Lincoln, NE; Louisville, KY and Rochester, MN. Outside of the U.S., 45 degree imagery is now available in a number of cities in...

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We told you about a new charity initiative from San Francisco based EXEC a few days ago, which allows you to “rent” time from some of the top founders in the valley for $100 an hour, with the money going directly to Donors Choose. Initially, the founders involved were Alexis...